Bottle attachment.



G. J. MUNSCHY.

BOTTLE ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 22.1914.

1 1 54,535. Patented Sept. 21, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented 3 1 .21. 191-5 Applicationfiiea zfaiyea wi ia -eria1 No. 852,514.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE Mouser-1y, acitizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of NewYork and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inBottle Attachments, of which the following 1s a specification.

This invention contemplates the provision of a bottle attachmentprimar1ly 1ntendedfor use in connection with poison bottles whereby thestopper is wholly inclosed and locked in position, so that bottles ofthis character may be readily distinguished in the dark from otherbottles, and to direct attention to the fact that the contents thereofare of a poisonous nature.

To this end the invention essentiallyconsists of the provision of a capcompris ng hinged sections to facilitate its application to and removalfrom the neck of the bottle, together with a novel construction of meansfor locking the sections associated.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a device of thischaracter which is extremely simple in construction with a view ofreducing the cost of manufacture of the same to a minimum.

In the drawing forming a part of this application like numerals ofreference indicate similar in which:

Figure 1 is a view of the device applied to a bottle, Fig. 2 is aperspective view of the device, and Fig. 3 is a detail view of thelatch.

Referring more particularly to the drawing 5 designates a bottle of theusual construction having a reduced neck portion 6 and enlarged mouthportion 7 the latter being closed by means of a stopper 8.

The attachment forming the subject matter of my invention comprises acap a consisting of two similarly constructed sections 10 having theadjacent edges of the top portions 11 thereof hingedly connectedtogether in any suitable manner. Each of the sections 10 have theirintermediate portions bulged outwardly as at 12 to form an annularpocket when the sections are associated for the reception of the mouth 7of the bottle, the lower portions 13 of the sections being reduced so asto snugly embrace the neck 6 of the bottle in applied position.

With a view of preventing casual separaparts in the several views, and

tion of the cap from the bottle I employ a latch element 14 carried bythe lower portion of one of the sections 10 and adapted to be receivedby the keeper 15 secured to the other of said sections. As shown in thisparticular instance, the latch element 14 is constructed from a singlelength of resilient material into U-form, the limbs 16 of which are heldnormally spaced through the medium of a leaf spring 17 interposedtherebetween. The keeper 15 is also constructed from a single strip ofmaterial and comprises an offset central portion 18 having an instruckopening providing the spurs or projections 19 which engage with theslots 20 formed in the limbs 16 of the latch element, when the latterenters the keeper 15. When the parts are thus associated the cap will beeffectively locked in position on the neck of the bottle and whollyinclose the stopper therefor. To remove the cap it is only necessary topress the limbs 16 toward each other whereupon the element 1 1' may bereadily and easily withdrawn from the keeper and the sections 10separated.

Manifestly with the cap in position the bottle can be readilydistinguished in the dark from other bottles so as to prevent itscontents from being inadvertently administered for medicines.

It is desired to be understood that I do not limit myself to thedetailed construction of what I consider the preferred form of myinvention as hereinabove described, and that various changes in theconstruction and form may be resorted to to accommodate the device tothe different type bottles.

It is believed from the foregoing description that the nature andadvantages of the invention will be clearly apparent without requiring amore extended explanation and therefore the same has been omitted.

What I claim is In a bottle attachment, a. cap comprising hingedlyconnected sections adapted to be placed over the mouth of the bottle andembrace the neck portion thereof, a substantially U-shaped keeperterminally secured to the exterior of one of the sections adjacent itsmeeting edge, a latch constructed from a single length of material intosubstantially U-form, one of the limbs of said latch being secured tothe other section and projecting beyond the meeting edge thereof, aspring interposed between the lim s o yieldztbly supporting the other ofsaid In testimony whereof I zrfiix my signature limbs, and a projectionextending inwardly in presence of two Witnesses.

from said keeper for interchangeable env GEORGE J. MUNSCHY. gagementwith a series of apertures in the Witnesses:

5 said yieldably supported limb when the sec- JACQUES MUNscnY,

tions are operatively associated. ALBERT C. MUNSCHY.

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